Re: [AUCTeX] file mode specification error: really problem with making auto-loads

[Ralf Angeli]

* Peter Rayner (2006-07-09) writes:

> Ralf Angeli writes:
>>Are you using Emacs in unibyte mode?  Did you set the EMACS_UNIBYTE
>>environment variable for example?
> Aha, yes, done for reasons of another package and I forgot that once
> it's in your environment it can propagate a long way. 
> I turned it off and it works fine.  Can one protect the build process
> against an error like this? 

We could issue a warning at the time we check for MULE support and
leave MULESRC empty.  Or we could issue a warning and start Emacs with
--multibyte when compiling files.  I'd prefer the former method.  If
the user does not like multibyte support (how strange that might be),
don't force it.

-- 
Ralf